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Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation via the off-side rule.[34]
| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: object-oriented,[1] procedural (imperative), functional, structured, reflective |
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| Designed by | Guido van Rossum |
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| Developer | Python Software Foundation |
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| First appeared | 20 February 1991; 32 years ago[2] |
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| Stable release | 3.11.3[3] / 5 April 2023; 42 days ago |
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| Preview release | 3.12.0a7[4] / 5 April 2023; 42 days ago |
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| Typing discipline | Duck, dynamic, strong typing;[5] gradual (since 3.5, but ignored in CPython)[6] |
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| OS | Windows, macOS, Linux/UNIX, Android[7][8] and more[9] |
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| License | Python Software Foundation License |
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| Filename extensions | .py, .pyi, .pyc, .pyd, .pyw, .pyz (since 3.5),[10] .pyo (prior to 3.5)[11] |
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| Website | python.org |
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| Major implementations |
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| CPython, PyPy, Stackless Python, MicroPython, CircuitPython, IronPython, Jython |
| Dialects |
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| Cython, RPython, Starlark[12] |
| Influenced by |
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| ABC,[13] Ada,[14] ALGOL 68,[15] APL,[16] C,[17] C++,[18] CLU,[19] Dylan,[20] Haskell,[21][16] Icon,[22] Lisp,[23] Modula-3,[15][18] Perl,[24] Standard ML[16] |
| Influenced |
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| Apache Groovy, Boo, Cobra, CoffeeScript,[25] D, F#, GDScript, Genie,[26] Go, JavaScript,[27][28] Julia,[29] Mojo,[30] Nim, Ring,[31] Ruby,[32] Swift[33] |
